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The front that has dumped rain on San Francisco most of the morning seems to be passing through, according to the weather forecasters. So there’s still a chance that today’s scheduled America’s Cup Race 14 can go off. The rain stopped around 12:30 p.m. Pacific. The racing has been in doubt not because of the rain […] More »

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The fates dealt Emirates Team New Zealand a blow Friday, then Oracle Team USA handed them another. With just one win to go to claim the America’s Cup, the Kiwis were denied in Race 13. They enjoyed a huge 1,200-meter lead in a plodding race stymied by winds that fell as low as 7 knots. […] More »

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Twice during the America’s Cup finals, the Kiwis were stymied by high winds that forced the postponement of races in which they led. On Friday, it happened again, only this time the postponement came because the winds were too low. Emirates Team New Zealand had a whopping lead on Oracle Team USA in Race 13, […] More »

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Once again, the Kiwis are on the verge of winning the America’s Cup, but if they’re going to do it today, the winds are going to have to cooperate. Unlike Thursday, when there wasn’t a cloud in the sky, it’s cloudy today and chillier. Forty-five minutes before race time, the crowd at America’s Cup Park […] More »

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Oracle Team USA just won’t go away. It took advantage of a strong maneuver in the prestart by skipper Jimmy Spithill to win the start and was never headed in winning Race 12 of the finals, delaying Emirates Team New Zealand’s hoped-for victory celebration Thursday. Oracle’s margin of victory was 31 seconds as it cut the Kiwis’ […] More »

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By a very crude estimate, the New Zealand fans outnumber the Oracle fans by about a 2-to-1 margin on Piers 27-29 in San Francisco. It’s 1 p.m. Pacific time, and the stage is set for the possible decisive race in the America’s Cup finals. Thousands of Kiwis are here, and they couldn’t ask for better weather […] More »

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Winning another tacking duel on the upwind third leg, Emirates Team New Zealand beat Oracle Team USA by 15 seconds in Race 11 of the up finals, leaving the Kiwis just one win from the America’s Cup. Team New Zealand has an 8-1 lead going into Wednesday’s second race, Race 11 of the series. Oracle started […] More »

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Emirates Team New Zealand’s hopes of winning the America’s Cup on Tuesday were dashed when the two scheduled races were scrapped because of excess winds. Because of a strong 2.9-knot ebb tide, the wind limit for the day’s first race was lowered from 23 knots to 20.1. At 1:25 p.m. the winds were consistently arround […] More »

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Whatever Oracle Team USA has learned about tacking, it has made a dramatic difference in the America’s Cup finals. But it might have come too late. After Oracle won Race 9 Sunday by 47 seconds in a wire-to-wire win, Emirates Team New Zealand came back to win a spine-tingling Race 10 by 17 seconds and […] More »

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For about five seconds, it looked like Emirates Team New Zealand was about to blow everything in the America’s Cup. All of the island nation no doubt held its breath Saturday when Aotearoa, its 72-foot catamaran, very nearly capsized about two-thirds of the way through the upwind third leg. Oracle Team USA took the lead at that point and […] More »